We just got our I797C in the mail today. This is our approval to proceed with the adoption of our soon to be daughter from China. It is what you get after sending in fees and paperwork for an I800A. So the journey continues. Hope to have our dossier in the mail by mid to late next week as most of it is done minus one form I am getting Monday!.
More later
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Picture time
Ok, not pics of our daughter in waiting, those will have to wait, keeping that private. But some pics of Ms Sadie. She is becoming a mess, but all in a good way!
From top down
Yes it is a SadieBug
I love chocolate
Alot
I have mommies boxers on hahahaha
Friday, July 24, 2009
Big Big Change of Plans!!!!!
Ok we started this process of a second adoption oh Feb. of this year I think. We had decided on Mexico as we had a fondness for the country( I lived there in 1990). The main reason was Vietnam is now closed so not an option and waits in other Asian countries were to long. Why Asian, not for the trend reasons at all, instead Sadie is from an Asian country and we fely having a sibling who had that in common could be a good thing. However diversity was not an issue either for us with a different region.
Anyway we had been on some waiting children lists and on one of them a girl from China who was an older child caught our attention. We inquired and then off on a whirlwind adventure where we changed countries, dealt with the issues of going on with that and moving forward. This was not done on a whim. We talked to doctors, other parents of older adoptive children, friends in the adoption business etc. In the end we decided this child was meant to be a part of our family. She is a healthy child and I really do not ant to give many details at the moment as I just want to keep it a family thing and will post more the closer we get. I will just say she is female if you have not figured that out yet and she is older than 7.
Where do we stand? We are pre approved from the CCAA in China to adopt this child. We have our homestudy complete and all of our dossier except a couple of things. One is the I800A and I just received word today it is approved and we should have official paperwork sometime next week. As we get closer I will leak out more details but for now I will just say she is in Guangzhou and we hope to have her as a member of our family lat ethis year or early next. Stay tuned for updates!
Anyway we had been on some waiting children lists and on one of them a girl from China who was an older child caught our attention. We inquired and then off on a whirlwind adventure where we changed countries, dealt with the issues of going on with that and moving forward. This was not done on a whim. We talked to doctors, other parents of older adoptive children, friends in the adoption business etc. In the end we decided this child was meant to be a part of our family. She is a healthy child and I really do not ant to give many details at the moment as I just want to keep it a family thing and will post more the closer we get. I will just say she is female if you have not figured that out yet and she is older than 7.
Where do we stand? We are pre approved from the CCAA in China to adopt this child. We have our homestudy complete and all of our dossier except a couple of things. One is the I800A and I just received word today it is approved and we should have official paperwork sometime next week. As we get closer I will leak out more details but for now I will just say she is in Guangzhou and we hope to have her as a member of our family lat ethis year or early next. Stay tuned for updates!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The joureny continues and HOMESTUDY IS DONE!!!!!!
Well, it has been oh 4 or 5 months since we started our second adoption. Sadie is almost 2 and half growing like crazy and talking alot. Sometimes I wonder maybe too much!LOL We took a vacatio over Easter to Nags Hed on the Outer Banks of NC and while the weather sucked we did have a good time. Sadie has decided she likes boats and boat docks and was up every morning at 630 or 7 waking us up saying,, We gonna go see boat! We went on a couple of bots including the Elizabeth II replica sailing ship and she had a blast. It rained and was cold but good food took in some great sights and it was relaxing most importantly.
On the second adoption we were very lucky. The wonderful social worker who did our first home study is our social worker for this adoption so the home study process was very comfortable and went very smooth as we were all familiar with each other. We got the official hometudy from our agency in the mail a few days ago and will be starting our I800 paperowork probably this weekend. All is really up in the air as far a adoptions in Mexico due to teh swine flu outbreak mostly but next year, when we expect is closer to when we know more hard information that should be well behind everyone(we hope.) Delays an dissue ssuch as this are to be expected. During the process with Sadie we were delyed a few times, one by an unrelated investigation in her home province that took up manpower( it was a corrupt land deal that was a big deal) and then a typhoon hit when we were supposed to go and delayed us another month. Also in Vietnam it was not swine flu but avaian flu so it seems this is all part of the process and you just prepare you self for the ups and downs long the way. Well not much more to report besides that, sorry for the delay but I will post more as we know more.
On the second adoption we were very lucky. The wonderful social worker who did our first home study is our social worker for this adoption so the home study process was very comfortable and went very smooth as we were all familiar with each other. We got the official hometudy from our agency in the mail a few days ago and will be starting our I800 paperowork probably this weekend. All is really up in the air as far a adoptions in Mexico due to teh swine flu outbreak mostly but next year, when we expect is closer to when we know more hard information that should be well behind everyone(we hope.) Delays an dissue ssuch as this are to be expected. During the process with Sadie we were delyed a few times, one by an unrelated investigation in her home province that took up manpower( it was a corrupt land deal that was a big deal) and then a typhoon hit when we were supposed to go and delayed us another month. Also in Vietnam it was not swine flu but avaian flu so it seems this is all part of the process and you just prepare you self for the ups and downs long the way. Well not much more to report besides that, sorry for the delay but I will post more as we know more.
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